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Cherie Labat, Ph.D

Affiliated Faculty Member for the Educational Leadership and School Counseling Department

PROFESSIONAL BIOGRAPHY:

Cherie Antoinette Washington-Labat is a school principal at Bay Waveland Middle School where she has focused on academic achievement, school culture, school to community relationships, curriculum and instruction planning and implementation, student/teacher relationships, STEM, school transformation and building a capacity for student leadership for the past decade. She is has been a school educator for over 17 years serving as a teacher, coach, adjunct faculty, assistant dean, vocational director, assistant principal and principal. She was designated administrator of the year in 2012. Prior to becoming an educator, Dr. Labat worked for, Abbott Laboratories, Kemper National Insurance Company, and is currently co-owner of Labat Properties, LLC.

She currently serves as a board member for Mississippi School for Math and Science, Hancock Community Development Foundation and Habitat for Humanity.